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The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

Oliver Stone

I think there is a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.
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Generation People Thinking
The Greek playwrights, we’re all beholden to them, every one of us.
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Country Greek People Playwright
I think our life is a series of adventures.
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Adventure Life Thinking
I’m a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
OLIVER STONE

Dramatist History Looks Way
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
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Believe Different Interpretation Movie
When I’m working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I’m not interested in credit, but I’m feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.
OLIVER STONE

Credit Effort Important
I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
OLIVER STONE

Bumped People Thinking
I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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Power Torture
Each actor requires a different language.
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Actors Different Language
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.
OLIVER STONE

Differences Marijuana Weed
People will go to clean theaters; they don’t like to go to dirty theaters.
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Clean Dirty People
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
OLIVER STONE

Country Nightmares Sweat Worst
Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
OLIVER STONE

Animal Army Exercise
I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
OLIVER STONE

Misunderstood People Thinking
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
OLIVER STONE

Believe Country Leader Lightning People
I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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Changed Country People Style

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